Balla v. Sladek’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently May 2008 · most notably Snyder v. Harmon (1989), Fisher v. Dye (1956)
13 federal appellate · 46 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Knox v. Simmerman · Kotal v. Goldberg · Maltz v. Carter · Clark v. Essex Wire Corp. · Landy v. Rosenstein
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But the testimony was properly excluded. Though fully established, the facts offered to be proved were not sufficient to convict plaintiff of contributory negligence. The fact alone that the defendant `had been drinking during the course of the evening preceding the accident' is not sufficient. There was no offer to prove intoxication; and drinking of intoxicating liquors, in itself, does not prove unfitness to drive. See Landy v. Rosenstein, 325 Pa. 209, 188 A. 855; Commonwealth v. Stosny, 152 Pa.Super. 236, 31 A.2d 582.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“drinking of intoxicating liquors, in itself, does not prove unfitness to drive.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Miles v. Ryan
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.